8 courses with the subject GRK, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
GRK 101Elementary Greek6
From the triceratops (“three-horned-face”) to the antarctic (“opposite-the-bear-constellation”), ancient Greek has left traces in our language, literature (epic, tragedy, comedy), ways of organizing knowledge (philosophy, history, physics), and society (democracy, oligarchy, autocracy). It gives access to original texts from ancient Greece, early Christianity, and the Byzantine Empire, not to mention modern scientific terminology. In Greek 101 students will develop knowledge of basic vocabulary and grammar, and will begin reading short passages of prose and poetry. The class will meet five days a week. Offered: Winter 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: No Exploration requirements of GRK 101. Tags: CL: 100 level Faculty: Jake Morton
Selected prose readings. The course will emphasize review of grammar and include Greek composition. Offered: Fall 2025 Liberal Arts Requirements: No Exploration or better or received a score of 103 on the Carleton Greek Placement exam. Tags: CL: 100 level CLAS Core Language Faculty: Chico Zimmerman
Student has completed any of the following course(s): GRK 102 with a grade of C-
GRK 204Intermediate Greek Prose and Poetry
The goal for Intermediate Greek Prose and Poetry is to gain experience in the three major modes of Greek expression most often encountered “in the wild”—prose, poetry, and inscriptions—while exploring the notion of happiness and the good life. By combining all three modes into this one course, we hope both to create a suitable closure to the language sequence and to provide a reasonable foundation for further exploration of Greek literature and culture. Offered: Winter 2026 Credits: 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: LP Language Requirement No Exploration or better or received a score of 204 on the Carleton Greek Placement exam. Tags: CL: 200 level CLAS Core Language ENGL Foreign Literature Faculty: Clara Hardy
GRK 221Meeting an Anti-Hero: Philoctetes by Sophocles
Philoctetes is the Greek hero you would not expect to meet, but the one we deserve in the present times. Betrayed by his comrades and abandoned in all solitude on a deserted island, will he be able to return to his life and regain his heroic fame? Let's find it out together, while reading one of the most underrated
Homer is perhaps the foundational poet of the western canon, and his work has been justly admired since its emergence out of the oral tradition of bardic recitation in the eighth century BCE. This course will sample key events and passages from the Odyssey, exploring the fascinating linguistic and metrical features of the epic dialect, as well as the major thematic elements of this timeless story of homecoming. Offered: Spring 2026 Credits: 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Foreign Literature CLAS Core Language Faculty: Alex Knodell
